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Courseware Checklist for The Executive MBA Program
Phase I – Course 1. Managerial Economics & Business Environment
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2. Managing the Value Chain
3. Independent Study-I
Name Enrollment No.

This courseware package contains the following:

A. MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT– Concept Notes

1 Theory of Demand and Supply (ECON/CN001/1.0)

2 Production function and Analysis of Costs (ECON/CN002/1.0)
3 Perfect and Imperfect Competition (ECON/CN003/1.0)
4 Demand Forecasting (ECON/CN004/1.0)
5 Game Theory (ECON/CN005/1.0)
6 Banking and Money Supply (ECON/CN006/1.0)
7 Fiscal and Monetary Policy (ECON/CN007/1.0)
8 Economic and Political Environment (BENV/CN001/1.0)
9 Social and Cultural Environment (BENV/CN002/1.0)
10 Technological Environment (BENV/CN003/1.0)
11 Regulatory Environment of Business (BENV/CN004/1.0)

B. MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT – Cases

1 Lev Leviev Vs. De Beers (ECOA125)

2 SHARE Microfin Ltd: India's Largest Micro Finance Organization (FINMM001)
3 Microsoft Antirust Case (BECG006)
4 The Indian Economy: Dealing with Inflation (ECON020)
5 The US current A/c Deficit (9-706-002)
6 Should Energy be subsidized (ECON021)
7 The US Steel Industry in 2004: still in need of protection (ECON006)
8 Bolivia Nationalizes the Oil & Gas Sector (BENV006)
9 Mercosur - Changing Course? (BENV002)
10 The fall of D'Long (BENV009)
11 China Building Capitalism with socialist characteristic (9-706-041)
Labour Market reforms in France & the Job Law 'CPE' - A cost of opportunity
12
(BENV004)
13 Singapore: Past perfect; Future Tense (BENV008)
14 Hungary's Reform Process (9B06M081)
"Wind Energy Industry in the US & Canada; A Note on the regulatory Environment
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(BENV007)
16 Google's problems in China (BENV001)
17 Walmart's German Misadventure (BSTR082)
18 Carefour's Exit from South Korea (BSTR241)

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C. MANAGING THE VALUE CHAIN - Concept Notes

1 Operations Strategy (OPER/CN001/1.0)

2 Just-In-Time (JIT) Manufacturing System (OPER/CN002/1.0)
3 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): A Competitive Advantage (OPER/CN003/1.0)
4 Productivity and Quality Management (OPER/CN004/1.0)
5 Impact of Globalization on Operations Management (OPER/CN005/1.0)
6 Facility Network Design (OPER/CN006/1.0)
7 Returns Management (OPER/CN007/1.0)
8 Role of Outsourcing in a Supply Chain (OPER/CN008/1.0)
9 Measuring the Supply Chain Performance (OPER/CN009/1.0)
10 E-Business and the Supply Chain (OPER/CN010/1.0)

D. MANAGING THE VALUE CHAIN – Cases

1 Li & Fung-The Global Value Chain Configurator (BSTR149)

2 Operations at Whirlpool (OPER034)
3 The Ford Production System (OPER040)
4 Volvo’s Product Development Practices-Focus on Safety (OPER042)
5 Toyota’s JIT Revolution (OPER006)
6 ERP Implementation Failure at HP (ITSYS045)
7 Toyota’s Kaizen Experience (OPER007)
8 The Six Sigma ‘Plus’ Quality Initiative at Honeywell (OPER024)
9 Infosys’ Global Delivery Model (OPER059)
10 FedEx-The Leading Supply Chain Management Solutions Provider (OPER029)
11 RFID at the METRO Group (9-606-053)
12 Amazon.com’s Inventory Management (OPER023)
13 Titan – The Outsourcing Journey (OPER016)
14 New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc (9-606-094)
15 Zara’s Supply Chain Management Practices (OPER055)
16 Tesco’s Supply Chain Management Practices (OPER054)
“Wal-Mart’s Supply Chain Management Practices (B) – Using IT/Internet to Manage
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the Supply Chain (OPER028)
18 Ford’s E-Business Strategy (ITSYS002)

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F INDEPENDENT STUDY-I BOOKS
1 What Management is – Joan Magretta; Nan Stone
(Viva Publication – ISBN: 1-86197-645-3)
2 The Essential Drucker The best of peter Drucker’ s essentials writings on Management
– By Peter Drucker
(Harper Collins Publications – ISBN: 006093574X)
3 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen R. Covey
(Pocket Publications – ISBN: 1416502491)
4 Emotional Intelligence/Working with Emotional Intelligence – By Daniel P. Goleman
(Time Warner Publications – ISBN: 0747574561
5 Six Thinking Hats – By Edward de Bono
(Penguin UK – ISBN: 0140296662)
6 You can Negotiate Anything (How to get what you want) – By Herb Cohen
(Jaico Publications – ISBN: 817 2240-619)
7 A Bias for Action – By Heike Bruch, Sumantra Ghoshal
(Penguin India Publications – ISBN: 0143061887)

G Others
1 Student Guidelines for Submission of Assignments with Annexures-I & II
2 Questions for Independent Study- I Assignments
3 Questions for the Case Study Assignments
4 Multimedia CD
5 Case Study Analysis- An Illustration

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